Every country in the world has a 'mixed bag' of production quality available.
Labelling one country good or bad over a couple of factories is misleading.
The Cobra factory has a very good reputation, but it has little to do with Thailand.
It is how the factories are run that ultimately determines the quality, wether it is local shapers here or the myriad of options available in China.
There are plenty of good factories in China.
Boardworks boards have always had production in China and they made C4 boards up until last year. We have rarely see any quality issues from either of these brands or the factories they use in China. There are plenty of other brands getting good quality of China.
As DJ stated many of the bigger brands use a couple of different factories and often in different countries in case one goes down due to adverse weather or political unrest.
Every brand has its issues no matter where they source their product.
China pops up more than other countries purely by sheer volume of the number of production facilities available there.
Quality comes from the business model employed, not the country of origin.
Moving a factory to Vietnam (often to reduce the labour cost) or Thailand will not improve quality on its own.
Reading through this thread however it would appear that it may convince come customers that they are some how getting a better quality product.
Labelling all production out of China as one quality is like labelling all people who surf SUPS as clowns
But folks their is a reason its cheap , cause its cheap
